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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Sevier County, Utah

Sevier County, Utah has 351 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1925–2001, including 43 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts) and 193 prospect pits; 6 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 21 problems in the county, 12 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 35 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Sevier County, every OSMRE abandoned mine land problem in the county, and every MSHA-registered mine here with status Abandoned. Named features are listed below; unnamed ones are counted by type. Locations are deliberately not shown: this page says what abandoned workings are in the county, not where to find them. They are dangerous and should not be entered.

Mapped mine features (USGS)
351
Mine openings
43
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
12
MSHA mines marked abandoned
35
6 features carry a name193 prospect pits31 quadrangle maps, published 1925–2001 21 OSMRE problems, 9 reclaimed 2 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    53 14.2%
  2. Prospect pits and trenches
    shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
    193 51.9%
  3. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    43 11.6%
  4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    71 19.1%
  5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    7 1.9%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    5 1.3%
Named features on the maps6 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Antelope Mine Adit
Antelope Mine Mine Shaft
BW and H Mine Mine Shaft
Convulsion Coal Mine Adit
Knight Mine Open Pit Mine
Link Canyon Mine Adit

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems21 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Boston Acme #2 P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Boston Acme #2 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Burke Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Coal Hollow P2 Portals In Reclamation
Coal Hollow P3 Equipment Facility In Reclamation
Coal Hollow P3 Slump In Reclamation
Coal Hollow P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Coal Hollow P3 Water Problems In Reclamation
Knight Mine P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Knight Mine P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Red Butte P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Ricci P1 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive In Reclamation
Ricci P1 Portals In Reclamation
Sevier Valley Mine P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Sevier Valley Mine P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Sevier Valley Mine P3 Water Problems Reclamation Completed
Wide Hollow P2 Portals In Reclamation
Willow Basin P2 Portals In Reclamation
Willow Basin P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation
Wilson P2 Portals In Reclamation
Wilson P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned35 on register
  1. Bear Canyon #2
    Underground coal · C W Mining Company (Co-Op Mine) · MSHA ID 4202095
    Abandoned and Sealed
  2. Belknap Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Le Grand Johnson Construction Company · MSHA ID 4201873
    Abandoned
  3. Cove View Portable Crusher
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cove View Excavating · MSHA ID 4202038
    Abandoned
  4. Ekins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Staker & Parson Companies · MSHA ID 4202294
    Abandoned
  5. H & H CONSTRUCTION PORTABLE #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & H Construction · MSHA ID 4202117
    Abandoned
  6. Hales Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Staker & Parson Cos. · MSHA ID 4202462
    Abandoned
  7. HALES SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hales Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4200889
    Abandoned
  8. Hales Sand & Gravel River Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hales Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 4202376
    Abandoned
  9. HALES SAND AND GRAVEL ELSINORE
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hales Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 4200893
    Abandoned
  10. HEBE GYPSUM
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Clay Company · MSHA ID 4202146
    Abandoned
  11. Jensen Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · James Reed & Company · MSHA ID 4201011
    Abandoned
  12. Jenson Elsinore Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · A D Jenson Contractors · MSHA ID 4201002
    Abandoned
  13. JOSEPH PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coleman Excavation Inc · MSHA ID 4202204
    Abandoned
  14. Knight Mine
    Underground coal · Coal Search Corp · MSHA ID 4201390
    Abandoned and Sealed
  15. Koosharem
    Surface metal/non-metal · Holcim (US) Inc · MSHA ID 4202508
    Abandoned
  16. L G Everist Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · L G Everist Inc · MSHA ID 4202041
    Abandoned
  17. North Yard Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L A Young Sons Construction Company · MSHA ID 4201836
    Abandoned
  18. NUMBER 1 PORTABLE CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · HAWLEY ROCK PRODUCTS, INC. · MSHA ID 4201921
    Abandoned
  19. Old Slaugh Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Warhawk Enterprise Inc · MSHA ID 4201895
    Abandoned
  20. Open Pit Salt Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Albert Poulson Salt Company · MSHA ID 4200294
    Abandoned
  21. Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Custom Rock Products · MSHA ID 4202595
    Abandoned
  22. Portable Crusher #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peter Kiewit Sons' Company · MSHA ID 4201687
    Abandoned
  23. Portable Crusher #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Rock Products · MSHA ID 4202264
    Abandoned
  24. Pride Of The West No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arthur M Boren · MSHA ID 4201396
    Abandoned
  25. Raven Ridge Project
    Surface metal/non-metal · D E Casada Rig & Construction · MSHA ID 4201745
    Abandoned
  26. REDMOND MINERALS CLAY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Redmond Minerals · MSHA ID 4202200
    Abandoned
  27. Redmond North Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Western Clay Company · MSHA ID 4202449
    Abandoned
  28. Rocky Mountain Crusher No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rocky Mountain Trucking & Equipment Company Inc · MSHA ID 4202011
    Abandoned
  29. Rodney Rasmussen Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rodney Rasmussen Company · MSHA ID 4201671
    Abandoned
  30. Segurd Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · John C Hawley Company · MSHA ID 4201898
    Abandoned
  31. Sigurd Quarries
    Surface metal/non-metal · Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC · MSHA ID 4200161
    Abandoned
  32. Valley Rock Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Valley Rock Products Inc. · MSHA ID 4202343
    Abandoned
  33. Vle 191 Mine
    Underground metal/non-metal · Ziegler Chemical & Mineral Corp · MSHA ID 4201499
    Abandoned
  34. Western Construction Portable Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Western Construction Inc · MSHA ID 4201883
    Abandoned
  35. Willow Creek
    Surface metal/non-metal · GMCO Willow Creek, LLC · MSHA ID 4202663
    Abandoned

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

By source vocabularythe publishers' own terms
Feature type Features
Prospect Pit 193
Gravel Pit 37
Adit 36
Open Pit Mine 36
Gravel Pit 12
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 7
Mine Shaft 7
Borrow Pit 7
P2 Portals 5
Quarry 5
Disturbed Surface - Pit 3
P3 Spoil Area 3
Quarry 3
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
P2 Vertical Openings 2
P1 Portals 2
P3 Water Problems 2
P1 Vertical Openings 1
Mine Dump 1
P1 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive 1
P3 Slump 1
Disturbed Surface 1
P3 Equipment Facility 1
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How to read these numbers

A USGS feature is a symbol on a historical topographic map, there when the map was surveyed; it may since have been sealed, reclaimed, built over or reopened as a working mine, and the map does not say which. An OSMRE row is a problem the abandoned mine land program tracks, not a mine. An MSHA mine is a registered operation whose operator reported abandonment, a record that starts in the 1970s. The three overlap and are never added together. The county is assigned from each feature's coordinates against the Census 2023 county boundaries. The full method is on the national page.

Sources
  1. USGS, Consolidated Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the United States (USMIN)
    597,612 point and area features digitized from about 106,350 historical topographic maps published 1886–2006; public domain (CC0). A feature is a map symbol, not a field-verified site, and the map does not say whether it was still worked.
  2. USGS Fact Sheet 2025–3003, The Abandoned Mine Inventory of the United States
    States that as of 2025 there is no comprehensive national inventory of abandoned mine features, and that the detailed national database now being built will not be published.
  3. OSMRE, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (e-AMLIS), public Problems layer
    One row per abandoned mine land problem in a problem area, with its type, funding program and reclamation status; mostly coal mined before the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Coordinates are the problem area's.
  4. MSHA, Mines dataset (Mine Data Retrieval System)
    Every mine registered with MSHA since the 1970s; a mine reads Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed when its operator reported that status. Refreshed weekly.
  5. US Census Bureau, 2023 cartographic county boundaries (1:500,000)
    Each feature's county is assigned by its coordinates against these boundaries, not copied from the source file.
  6. GAO-20-238, Abandoned Hardrock Mines (March 2020)
    Federal agencies had identified at least 140,000 abandoned hardrock mine features on federal land and estimated more than 390,000 more not yet captured in their databases.
  7. Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) Program, US Department of the Interior
    The program the USGS inventory is compiled for. Its appropriations and the 674,000 field-confirmed feature count on this page were provided by the program manager, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance, and are cited with permission (2026-09-08).
  8. IMCC-NAAMLP Hardrock AML Report
    Page 48 carries the two figures this page leans on: USGS estimates 633,181 of the 725,690 mine features it recorded from historic topographic maps, 87 percent, are hardrock; and state and federal agencies have submitted more than 724,000 AML features to the national database being built, already more than the historic maps hold. Year-by-year AHMR funding is on page 35.